The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-27

appearing to notice anything but birds She is
now forty-seven xears of age, has gained some
embonpoint. talks more coherently than last
year, and seems somewhat improved-to such q
point to leave hope Of eventual recovery
QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain was recently told
that her younger sister. the Duchess of Mont
pensier. looked older than her Majesty, where
upon she exclaimed: Then she ought TO be hap
by, for she has wanted TO be tho elder sister all
her life long, and now, at least, she appears to
be So"
ONE OF the handsomest young women in
W ashngton society is the daughter of Senator
Cullom. of Illinois. She is described as "a tall
slender blonde, with face strangely like those
seen in portraits of the Madonna, both in shape
cast of features and coloring." Nothing could
be finer than this.
SUSAN E. DICKINSON writes to the Philadel-
phia Times, of Friday: 81 cannot answer the
letters pouring in, therefore, desire to say
through the Times that while Miss Anna Dickin-
is slowly convalescing she is yet unable
to lift her head from the pillow or see any one
but her attendants"
PROF. MAGGI, of Italy, In q recent paper speaks
of some methods of testing the purity of drink
ing waters. Koch's method by cultivation in
gelatine is shown TO be greatly inferior in
efficacy to that of Fol and Dunant by cultivation
bacterial germs where the latter finds 100, 900.
The author points out further that Fol and
Dunants is substantially the same as the
method already adopted at a much earlier date
(1667) by himself and Prof. Giovanni Cantoni
GEN. ALBERT PIKE, poet, soldier and grand
commander of the Southern jurisdiction of Free
masons, lives. at the age of seventy seven, in
tirement at Washington, D. c. He is tall, robust
and handsome. He spends his time in his library
translating the SanscriHbooks OF Veda. General
Pike has translated seventeen volumes of a
thousand pages each. None of them have yet
been printed. The General is an accomplished
linguist and we'll acquainted with modern
languages as with ancient.
THE ritsh War Department has been ex-
perimen.ing with a multicycle velocipede. a
modification of the quadricycle known as tho
.four-in-hand." It is worked by twelve men,
placed like rowers in race boats. one OF whom
acts as coxswain. The pedals and movements
SO connected as to permit uniform move
ments OF ali parts of the machinery. A speed OF
twelve to sixteen miles an hour has been OBJ
tanned over country of varied surface, and in
GLIDING narrow and crooked roads.
Mr.. JOHN WANAMAKER, the Philadelphia shop
keeper and phianthropist, has declined the din
ner at the Union League Club which the editors
and publishers of the daily papers of Philade!-
phia proposed TO give him. Il would not feel It
to be right" he says, lat this time to accept it,
since l yet on the scaffolding of incom-
peted building in the sphere of my proper life
work. do not consider that have yet attained
to that which is in any large degree common
surate with the truest purposes and plans of my
life"
A NEW YORK lady coaxed organ grinders
monkey until he went up the railing and nestled
in her arms, where she petted and caressed him
to extent that ought to have made even
monkey take his Nevertheless he began
to Chamber over her arms and shoulders Sud-
denly he stock stock still for instant, and
watched her mouth as she talked to him, and
then, quick as lightning, one paw struck out aud
snatched set of false teeth from her mouth.
With a leap and a bound he was on the sidewalk
again, trying to put the teeth into his own
mouth. The lady retreated under great confu-
sion after the teeth were recovered.
Col PHocIoN HOWARD the Illinois gentle
man who has just had correspondence with
Jefferson Davis touching the tle-fiae ISSUE is
q character. He was once a peripatetic printer,
but he now has frog farm near Danviie. He
is a large man. with a plethoric abdomen, and he
usually wears old-fashioned, shad-belly coat
with brass buttons. He also affects wide
brimmed SLOUGH hat He writes a good deal for
the newspapers. talks a great deal in a loud
voice abort himself, attends all gatherings,
from funerals to national conventions, and when
he has fabricated his vocal chords with the oil
of corn he can come as near imparting a YER
million tinge to q small town any man of his
build on the prairies. His intimate friends
speak of him "Old Phosh." In the days
when the granger party threatened to overwhelm
Illinois Phocion was a great man. =
PROF. f. n. Crouch, author of @Kathleen,
Mavourneen," tells how he has come to be elect
ed fellow of the London Society of Arts, Let
ters and Sciences. That society got acquainted
with him through series of articles he wrote
for The Folio. in which he gave his remlnis-
cences of English musicians The first thing he
heard from the society was invitation to join
it, and with the invitation came secondne notes
from several royal personages. After his cleo
ton he sent to the society with his acceptance
the original manuscripts Of many of his works.
AS soon as he has finished writing his own life.
on which he has been engaged for long time,
he will send copies OF it to the society, and also
to all members of the British royal family. He
will be eighty-seven years old next month.
Most of his twentyseven children still liv-
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